Sorry,Carl, spin all you like, but CAWI Co-Chair Katz's glowing tribute to Obama on the front page of your website serves to explain why only Barack Obama and no other Presidential candidate, including Midwest US Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio ( who unlike Obama, has consistently voted against funding the war) made the guest list here.

Non-partisan? Gimme a break.

Still, my personal favorite Katz quote here was:

"October 2nd didn’t stop the war it is true. But it did what it was intended to - assert and regain the public space for dissent.. "

Of course, the following March, over 800 people were arrested on Michigan Ave at the beginning of the war during the largest antiwar march mounted in Chicago since the Vietnam war -- at the express direction of Mayor Daley -- another invited O27 guest.